A Review Of Ralph Martino's Fantasy For Tuba-Euphonium Quartet

“Clifton Williams musician, composer and prolific composers of serious contemporary music for the wind band.” He has created some of the biggest standards in the American, Canadian, European, and Japanese Band repertoire.

A high school music teacher and band director, Dwight Asberry provides valuable instruction in both specific instrument training and general music appreciation and history. He also excels as a composer and arranger. Over the course of his career in music education, Dwight Asberry has directed a number of college, high school, middle school, and youth organization performance ensembles including symphonic and concert band, jazz band, pep band, marching band, drum line, wind ensemble, string orchestra, and choir.

The contribution of George Martin (producer of Sgt Pepper) also played a major part in the success of Sgt Pepper, his knowledge of classical music training is also apparent throughout the album.

Mr. Bethel from childhood to about eighteen years old had always aspired to become a world renowned musician. When he made it to high school, he played the trumpet within the Charleston High School band. Although he played with a band, the passion of music did not begin here. Music became interesting for him as a small child. On about every Friday night, he and his family would go to a near neighbor’s house to watch a fight. At the end of these broadcasts, the United States flag would wave across the screen and in the background there would be an orchestra playing. Mr. Bethel mentioned, “I always wanted to be a background musician, playing in an orchestra”.

This review is about the Studio Big Band and their performance in the Casa Loma Room at the University of Redlands on Thursday, February 23rd at eight in the evening, under the direction of Prof. David Scott. The concert was made up of the following tunes: “High Maintenance” by Gordon Goodwin, “Four” by Miles Davis (arr. Dave Bardhun), “Nica’s Dream” by Horace Silver (arr. Frank Mantooth), “Witchcraft” by Cy Coleman (arr. Sammy Nestico), “Footprints” by Wayne Shorter (arr. Mat Harris), “Category 4” by Jeff Jarvis, and “Giant Steps” by John Coltrane (arr. Mark Taylor). The music on this program was very relevant for the eras we are covering or will be covering soon in the class, and to this end, the piece I will be focusing on

In 1995, DSU’s band traveled to England to perform for the Queen and the people of England for the New Years day parade. It was a wonderful performance to be remembered forever. Since then, the band has performed at many more major venues across the world. They performed in the inaugural parade for President Barack Obama, as well as the MLK parade. The band is conducted by band director Randolph J. Johnson. Mr. Johnson is 61 years old and has 13 years of experience as a college band director as well as 11 years as a high school band director. He has lead the band through many great performances.

Over several centuries Scotland has not only been famously known for their landscape and culture, but also for their love of music. The most recognisable form of musical instrument in Scotland is the bagpipes and is the best known instrument around the world, to which several prodigy players took the music of the bagpipe to a higher scale. However a majority of Scotland’s population had a certain fear over the pipers thinking that they were of supernatural entity and were trying to connect with the devil. This led to the people believing that they had occult knowledge or were the form of Gnosticism. To get a clear indication as to wither people believed that pipe players in particular the MacCrimmons were of occult knowledge, the result of

Watching Louis Armstrong’s live performance in Berlin during the year 1965 was a pleasure, especially because I am a great fan of his music. Throughout the concert in Berlin, Armstrong and his chamber orchestra played 13 different pieces. With the exception of Jewel Woods’ entrance on vocals for two songs, the makeup of the chamber orchestra did not change throughout the concert. As a result, the cello, clarinet, drums, piano, trombone, and trumpet remained vital parts of each song throughout the concert.

With Tag Book, American drummer-composer Charles Rumback, a mainstay of the Chicago jazz scene, has his second release of the year on ears&eyes label with only nearly six months separating it from the previous release, Three. If the latter was a collection of three original compositions plus a rendition of Andrew Hill’s “Erato”, all of them complying with a 3/4 time signature, the newest album comprises five homogeneous pieces executed by the same trio with Jim Baker on piano and John Tate on acoustic bass.

    On Friday, October twenty-second, Simi Valley High School had their fall concert, however, they only had two bands so there was not much to write about. The concert band opened up with, Apparitions, by Brian Balmages, which was a song with a very mysterious intro with the percussion. The song is later developed into a soprano winds melody which was very well balanced with its counter and support. Unfortunately before a very beautiful, yet eerie flute solo they were somewhat out of tune, and during it, the flutes were talking to each other. Later, the soprano melody turns into a brass dominated scene, with the trumpets being slightly too loud and overtaking the rest of the band. Overall, the piece was very well executed with great attacks, releases, and flow. However there was little to no vibrato in the song. After that song, The Magician's Secret, by Joseph Eidson was stated by a flute squeak, but evens out into a nice jumpy beginning. Throughout the many brass and high winds chords, they were mostly out of tune, but the pulsing and tempo was very well done and controlled which gave the theme of smoothness and elegance. While the band was going great with strong and obvious dynamics, one of the trumpets messed up and showed it. Luckily, a great story of adventure and curiosity manage to cover him up and retain the moving melody. As the song ended, I personally felt the end was a bit too staccato and the overall song had no

On Friday, February 12, 2016 at 7:00 p.m., the Division of Music at Bob Jones University presented the Symphonic Wind Band and performed five pieces. The performance in Stratton Hall at Bob Jones University was a highlight of the European Travelogue, directed by Dan Turner. The program included A Moorside Suite by Gustav Holst; Three Revolutionary Marches by Bedrich Smetana; Spring: Overture for Wind Orchestra by Johan de Meij; Galop, from Genevieve de Brabant by Jacques Offenbach; Ile-de-France from Suite Francaise by Darius Milhaud; and Danceries by Kenneth Hesketh. Each piece was concluded with eager applause and praise.

George Helmholtz, as the head of the music department at Lincoln High School, is very determined with his regular students and the gifted musicians of the band. Each semester and year at school he dreams of “leading as fine a band as there was on

This piece is originally written for an iconic 20th-century tuba virtuoso Roger Bobo in December 1966 while they both, Roger Bobo and William Kraft, took a position with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. ENCOUNTER II for Solo Tuba is a member of Williams Kraft’s Encounter series. This piece contains many extremely difficult techniques for tuba such as an extremely wide range of the instrument, a complicated dissonant jump intervals, multiphonics, glissandi, and rapid half-valves technique. Those techniques are big development and challenge to the tuba players. Moreover, these document also an expectation to the wider more multitudinous genre of music.

John Towner Williams was in born February 8, 1932 in Long Island, New York, He is an American composer, conductor, and pianist. He is the son of Esther Williams and Johnny Francis Williams, His Father was an American jazz drummer and percussionist from the early 1930’s to the late 1950’s who played in the New York-based CBS Radio orchestra in the early 1930’s and achieved stardom as a drummer for the Raymond Scott Quintet from 1936 to 1939. John has two brothers Donald and Jerry, who are both Percussionists and are musicians who have played frequently in films as well.

William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of his most popular plays involving fairies, mischief, and love. The play features a play-within-a-play that has an eccentric acting troupe playing the parts. Together, they hope to perform “‘The most lamentable comedy and most cruel death of Pyramus and Thisbe,’” (1.1.10-11). Of all the characters in the play and movie, Francis Flute, a member of the acting troupe, is the most rounded character because the audience can see him grow, he exhibits traits of comedy and drama, and he ultimately has an inconsistent personality that makes him seem real.